Performing Citizenship through Design

Abstract

In the face of global protests and conflicts over spatial rights, thispaper proposes another framework for participatory design. Asparticipation necessitates the question of participation in, whatand for whom, we wish to bring in perspectives from citizens studiesin which citizenship is something to be claimed, enacted andperformed, as a potential for decolonizing the universal claim ofparticipation in “participatory design” and reflecting on role ofthe designer in current social struggles. Instead of creating neutralparticipatory spaces for democratic dialogue, we argue that thedesigner may recognize the productivity of affective relations. Withexamples from a deportation camp in Denmark and a seminar inmarginalized spaces of São Paulo, we address to how designersand activists turn the gaze from making minority groups participatein design and instead work with embodied and mediatizedperspectives and the ethics of affect in the design process.

abstract = "In the face of global protests and conflicts over spatial rights, thispaper proposes another framework for participatory design. Asparticipation necessitates the question of participation in, whatand for whom, we wish to bring in perspectives from citizens studiesin which citizenship is something to be claimed, enacted andperformed, as a potential for decolonizing the universal claim ofparticipation in “participatory design” and reflecting on role ofthe designer in current social struggles. Instead of creating neutralparticipatory spaces for democratic dialogue, we argue that thedesigner may recognize the productivity of affective relations. Withexamples from a deportation camp in Denmark and a seminar inmarginalized spaces of S{\~a}o Paulo, we address to how designersand activists turn the gaze from making minority groups participatein design and instead work with embodied and mediatizedperspectives and the ethics of affect in the design process.",

N2 - In the face of global protests and conflicts over spatial rights, thispaper proposes another framework for participatory design. Asparticipation necessitates the question of participation in, whatand for whom, we wish to bring in perspectives from citizens studiesin which citizenship is something to be claimed, enacted andperformed, as a potential for decolonizing the universal claim ofparticipation in “participatory design” and reflecting on role ofthe designer in current social struggles. Instead of creating neutralparticipatory spaces for democratic dialogue, we argue that thedesigner may recognize the productivity of affective relations. Withexamples from a deportation camp in Denmark and a seminar inmarginalized spaces of São Paulo, we address to how designersand activists turn the gaze from making minority groups participatein design and instead work with embodied and mediatizedperspectives and the ethics of affect in the design process.

AB - In the face of global protests and conflicts over spatial rights, thispaper proposes another framework for participatory design. Asparticipation necessitates the question of participation in, whatand for whom, we wish to bring in perspectives from citizens studiesin which citizenship is something to be claimed, enacted andperformed, as a potential for decolonizing the universal claim ofparticipation in “participatory design” and reflecting on role ofthe designer in current social struggles. Instead of creating neutralparticipatory spaces for democratic dialogue, we argue that thedesigner may recognize the productivity of affective relations. Withexamples from a deportation camp in Denmark and a seminar inmarginalized spaces of São Paulo, we address to how designersand activists turn the gaze from making minority groups participatein design and instead work with embodied and mediatizedperspectives and the ethics of affect in the design process.